3D beater
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsBrandon T. Mock, Sayer James Murphy
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Abstract
A mixer for combining food constituents into a homogeneous mass includes an eccentric drive mounted on a mixing head of the mixer, where the eccentric drive is configured to rotate around a central axis of a mixing area and rotate an offset rotational axis of a drive shaft in an orbit about the central axis of the mixing area. An angled beater attachment for the mixer further includes a top mounting portion operably coupled to the drive shaft of the stand mixer, a bottom beater portion disposed above the mixing area, and a beater support member operably coupled with a support shaft of the bottom beater portion. The bottom beater portion is driven by the drive shaft about an angled rotational axis that extends at an acute angle relative to the central axis of the mixing area.
Claims19
A mixer for combining food constituents into a homogeneous mass, the mixer comprising:
- an eccentric drive mounted on a mixing head of the mixer and configured to rotate around a central axis of a mixing area and rotate an offset rotational axis of an eccentric drive shaft in an orbit about the central axis of the mixing area and having an offset rotatable attachment drive lug through which the eccentric drive shaft extends;
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- an angled beater attachment further comprising:
- a top mounting portion operably coupled to the eccentric drive shaft;
- a bottom beater portion disposed above the mixing area;
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- a beater support member operably coupled with a support shaft of the bottom beater portion at a lower end of the beater support member and operably coupled with the attachment drive lug of the mixing head via a mating recess disposed at an upper end of the beater support member, wherein the beater support member is adapted to directly engage the attachment drive lug and thereby rotate the angled beater attachment around the central axis of the mixing area;
- wherein the bottom beater portion is driven by the eccentric drive shaft about an angled rotational axis that extends at an acute angle relative to the central axis of the mixing area.
An angled beater attachment for a stand mixer having an eccentric drive rotatable about a central axis of a mixing area, the angled beater attachment comprising:
- a top mounting portion operably coupled to an offset drive shaft of the stand mixer;
- a bottom beater portion centrally disposed above the mixing area, the bottom beater portion having an upwardly extending support shaft;
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- a beater support member operably coupled with an offset rotatable attachment drive lug disposed on the eccentric drive at an upper end thereof and operably coupled at a lower end thereof with the support shaft of the bottom beater portion, wherein the beater support member is operably coupled with the attachment drive lug of a mixing head via a mating recess disposed at an upper end of the beater support member, and wherein the beater support member is adapted to directly engage the attachment drive lug and thereby rotate the beater support member and the bottom beater portion around the central axis of the mixing area;
- wherein the bottom beater portion is driven by the offset drive shaft about an angled rotational axis that extends at an acute angle relative to the central axis of the mixing area.
An angled beater attachment for a stand mixer having a mixer operably coupled to an offset drive shaft of the stand mixer having an eccentric drive, the angled beater attachment comprising:
- a top mounting portion operably coupled to the offset drive shaft of the stand mixer;
- a bottom beater portion centrally disposed above a mixing area;
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- a beater support member operably coupled with the eccentric drive at an upper end thereof and operably coupled at a lower end thereof with a support shaft of the bottom beater portion, wherein the beater support member is operably coupled with an offset rotatable attachment drive lug of a mixing head via a mating recess disposed at an upper end of the beater support member, and wherein the beater support member is adapted to directly engage the attachment drive lug and thereby rotate the beater support member and the bottom beater portion around the central axis of the mixing area;
- wherein the offset drive shaft drives the bottom beater portion about an angled rotational axis that extends at an acute angle relative to a central axis of a mixing area and causes the bottom beater portion to orbit the central axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.